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ADRIAN THRILLS: Never a band to do things by halves, U2 cram an awful lot into a new album that is ostensibly one of their more personal projects. Songs Of Surrender is U2 unplugged, with the exception that it involves more than 40 of their best-loved songs and re-recording them in a less brash manner. Synthesisers, flutes, cellos, a choir, and a brass band are among the back-to-basics acoustic instruments. Even as an experiment in his front room during lockout, guitarist The Edge, the composer's idea, also adorns two numbers (Invisible and The Fly) with the most un-rock and roll of stringed instruments: the dulcimer.